sinsyne

American  

[sin-sahyn] / ˈsɪn saɪn /

adverb

Scot. and North England.

1. from that time; since then.

---

Etymology

Origin of sinsyne

1325–75; Scots and Northern dialect sin subsequent to, after ( Middle English, variant of sithen, Old English siththan sith ) + syne; replacing Middle English ( Scots ) sensyne ( sen, variant of sethen, variant of sithen; see since)

Example Sentences

Nor have any of us been the worse for it sinsyne.

From Vailima Letters by Stevenson, Robert Louis

O sairly may I rue the day I fancied first the womenkind; For aye sinsyne I ne'er can ha'e Ae quiet thought or peace o' mind!

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

But, alake! afore the end o' his twa discourses, my heart turned as cauld as lead, and it has never again hett in my breast sinsyne.

From The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) by Hogg, James

There’s eighty-eight and eighty-nine, And a’ that I hae borne sinsyne, There’s cess and press and Presbytrie, I think it will do meikle for to daunton me.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

And he aye minded sinsyne, when first he set his een upon her, he had the same cauld and deidy grue.

From Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)